USN-3530-1

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USN-3530-1

Summary: webkit2gtk vulnerabilities

Details: It was discovered that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack, and that this could be exploited in web browser JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from other domains, bypassing same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3530-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5715, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5753